Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers adopted a set of rules that did not allow the use of hands in football. However, Harvard stuck with its "hands-on" approach to the game, a choice which other schools eventually accepted...
...Attorney General and Bork's boss under Gerald Ford. "He was the most fantastic teacher I ever knew," Bork says. "He took the big ideas in the law and played with them, always by indirection." Levi's technique was to prove abrasively why more obvious explanations were wrong, an approach Bork adopted...
...sense of realism, in the view of conservatives as well as many liberals. In more than a dozen states, officials have been inching in a similar direction. But in a country that speaks in the same breath of the right to liberty and the right to life, this new approach raises old, complicated questions. How much deviation in behavior ought a free society tolerate? Is it rational to enshrine the liberty of those so irrational they cannot understand the nature of their rights? Is it not more humane -- indeed, is it not morally required -- to come...
...House, Tip O'Neill takes the last approach, figuratively pulling up a chair at Barry's Corner, his old hangout in Cambridge, Mass., and regaling the reader with a string of let-me-tell-you-about-the-time anecdotes. Already some of the book's barbed comments have provoked a flurry of attention and virtually guaranteed that it will be a commercial success. But the book is more than just a settling of old scores. It adds up to a stout defense of two now tarnished notions that O'Neill came to epitomize: the New Deal liberal ideal that government...
...unemployment dropping below 6%, pressing economic problems like the deficit and the trade imbalance remain abstract to most voters. Chastened by the experience of Walter Mondale, most Democrats (save for Swim-Against-the-Tide Bruce Babbitt) are reluctant to propose higher taxes. An example of the painless-dentistry approach to the budget is Dukakis' suspect claim that up to $110 billion can be raised by stronger enforcement of existing tax laws...